Category: Home Education
Potato world – or how many hours do you teach them?
When I mention home education, one of the most common questions is how many hours do you teach? (That usually follows on from do you do the teaching. Which is one that makes me wince slightly.) It’s difficult to explain. There’s very little teaching here. Learning happens as and when it happens – it requires…
School, huh, yeah, what is it good for?
Despite appearances to the contrary, given that we home educate, I’m not actually anti school per se. I’m just not sure I can see the point of it. And I think that there are an awful lot of ppl with similar sneaky suspicions out there, who are using school and just wondering if… So let’s…
Good for you.
A couple of weeks ago our home ed group went to the park. It was a glorious day – even though we hadn’t reached the advertised dates, the water features had been turned on and as my kids had brought sunsuits and towels ‘just in case’ they were very happy. soa had a good time…
What's in a word?
School v education. Homeschool v home education. Different images aren’t they? To me anyway, although mainstream media and politicians in this country for some reason do not seem to see this. Setting aside the implied discourtesy in using a term not in use by the ppl concerned, is this because they don’t want to accept…
Home education – why and how? Call for posts
In the past I’ve read some really inspiring posts on various ppl’s blogs on the why and how of how they came to home education and how it works for them as a family now. I’d love to read some more of those posts, either updates from ppl who’ve written them before, or a first…
